Small Victory in the Fight Against Global Cybercrime

We need to keep the pressure on scumbags like this, even if no one has been convicted yet, a long list of charges and multi-million dollar default judgments are a start.

Innovative Marketing, say investigators and Internet-security researchers, was one of the biggest and cleverest propagators of "scareware" — programs that run fake scans on computers of unsuspecting users and then claim to find viruses that can only be removed by downloading some software. Except the viruses don't exist and the software — which can cost between $30 and $70 — is either useless or can infect the computer itself.

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